Duet 3 Mini 5+ unable to connect via browser

[pkos]

Not to necro the thread too much, but is there anything a person with a hot air soldering station can do?
It seems like the stock for those minis won't be available again for another month or so.

[dc42]

@pkos said in Duet 3 Mini 5+ unable to connect via browser:

Not to necro the thread too much, but is there anything a person with a hot air soldering station can do?
It seems like the stock for those minis won't be available again for another month or so.

Our assemblers are currently building and testing a large batch of Duet 3 Minis. Deliveries to our resellers should be in full flow next week. They have been using our second-generation CAN-based Automatic Test equipment since the start of this week to speed up testing. This is the prototype:

The lid on the top right holds the Duet 3 Mini under test down to make contact with the pogo pins. The power resistors at the top provide loads for the heater/fan outputs, and the bank of inductors on the left simulate stepper motors without producing noise. The Duet 3 Mini at front centre runs the tests. At the back (not visible) are CAN-connected boards that measure motor currents and I/O voltages. Ignore the MB6HC board at the front, I was using it to adapt the ATE firmware to test MB6HC boards too.

[dc42]

@pkos said in Duet 3 Mini 5+ unable to connect via browser:

Not to necro the thread too much, but is there anything a person with a hot air soldering station can do?
It seems like the stock for those minis won't be available again for another month or so.

Yes, all it needs is a no-clean flux pen and hot air equipment. If you were in the UK, I would have volunteered to repair your board already. I have repaired about ten pre-production boards in this way.

[pkos]

Well, if it's next week, I'll wait patiently Don't want to mess the board up even more before I have the replacement. I mean it does turn on once every 10 times or so and even allows me to print something as long as I have cooling fans cooling the board.

EDIT: Sweet rig by the way.

[lodger]

Would this problem still be a issue if your running the board off a SBC. Was just thinking folks waiting for replacement stock may be able to run off a Pi ??
Just a idea !

[pkos]

@lodger That would work

I never think about adding an SBC to the Duet, since the main reason I use a duet is the standalone mode. I like the simplicity of it so much, it would feel weird to tarnish the Duet with a pi

But yes, if I won't hear from E3D anytime soon, I will either ask what should be resoldered exactly (I have all I need I believe) or add an SBC.

For now, I keep playing with the board when it actually boots up to test 3.3b1 - and I am seeing some issues there (like the 12864 screen doesn't work with 3.2.2 config anymore with an error saying X2 is too low a value).

[oc_geek]

@Phaedrux It happened again -> opened a thread on it
https://forum.duet3d.com/topic/22116/duet-mini-5-non-responsive-and-files-missing